MASON AND LEFROY. 121 



693. P. yanus. Western Blue Rock-thrush. Chiefly on 

 Coleoptera and ants. Jerd. B. I., I, 513. 



698. Oreocincla dauma. Small-billed Mountain Thrush. Its 

 food does not differ from that of the thrushes. I found fruit and 

 seeds in those I examined. -Jerd. B. I., I, 534. 



Stomachs examined 



2-2-09. 1 Myrmeleo larva. 



6 Prionocerus bicolor. 

 3 Opatrum depressum. 

 1 Cut-worm. 

 1 Geometric! larva. 



Summary. Of 12 insects taken, 1 is beneficial, 5 injurious and 

 6 neutral. Though feeding on the ground this bird does not ap- 

 parently take ' ber ' (Zizyphus jujuba) fruit, when fallen. 



701. 0. mollissima. Plain-backed Mountain Thrush. Insects 

 and berries. Jerd. B. I., I, 533. 



Cochoa feed on the ground and on trees. F. I., II, 158. 



706. C. purpurea. Purple Thrush. I have taken from their 

 stomachs several kinds of stony berries, small univalve mollusca 

 and sundry kinds of aquatic insects. Jerd. B. I., II, 243. 



Cinclince. Dippers or Water Ouzels. Habits aquatic. They 

 are admirably fitted for obtaining their food in the water. F. I., II, 



162. 



They dive noiselessly in search of insects, their larvae and pupae, 

 or molluscs ; fish spawn has not been found in the stomach. E. B. 

 C. N. H. 



709. Cinclus asiaticus.Biown Dipper. Various water in- 

 sects and larvaa, also shells when it can get them, and, it is said, ova 

 of fishes.- Jerd. B. I., I, 50. 



Accentorince. Accentors. Habits terrestrial. They feed on 

 insects and also it is said on small seeds. F. I., II, 57 & 167. 



Accentors feed much on the ground, on various insects, worms 

 and seeds. Jerd. B. L, II, 284-285. 



